Sentences with phrase «spare bedroom tax»

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Those with a spare room are hit by the bedroom tax, despite there being not enough smaller houses for them to move to.

Frank Field says: «Brick up your doors, knock down the walls» over the spare room subsidy / bedroom tax

Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.

The government reckoned 660,000 people were affected by the «spare room subsidy» - known to its opponents as the «bedroom tax» - but figures for northern Manchester suggest only 3 % of those affected in that area have downsized so far.

The prime minister is adamant that changes to housing benefit are not a tax, but a «spare room subsidy», while Labour raises the so - called «bedroom tax» weekly at Prime Minister's Questions.

The phrase is a conscious adaption of the coalition's «spare room subsidy», the term it tries to use when Labour attacks it for a «bedroom tax».

Councils have an important role to play in implementing the «bedroom tax» — they must identify households with spare bedrooms and then collect the extra rent for them.

12:29 - Tom Clarke (Lab, grave) reads a letter from a constituent who needs the spare room and is being hit by the bedroom tax.

Delegates buoyed by Vince Cable's colourful and blistering attack on the Tories this morning asked the deputy prime minister tricky questions regarding losing «the soul» (Clegg's words) of the Liberal Democrat Party via being associated with government measures such as the «bedroom tax» (defended and carefully referred to as the «spare bedroom subsidy» by Clegg), the notorious immigration vans and public spending cuts.

The spare room subsidy, also known as the «bedroom tax», is a housing benefit policy brought in by the coalition government.

The absence of the information about house movements on the back of the bedroom tax — called a «spare room subsidy» by the government — raises questions about arguments from ministers that the policy was designed to save money and free up existing stock to cut housing queues.

There's a question on the spare room subsidy (bedroom tax to you and me) which does not prompt a comment about Len McClusky.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) say they do not want the new charges for social housing tenants with a spare room (the so - called «bedroom tax») to discourage people from becoming foster parents.

Some pensioners with spare rooms will be hit by reductions in housing benefit under what critics dub the Government's «bedroom tax», the Department of Work and Pensions confirmed.

And the bedroom tax, which cuts payments to council tenants with spare rooms, has hit nearly 50,000 households in London.

While Ed Miliband repeatedly used the disputed «bedroom tax» phrase for what the prime minister referred to as the «spare room subsidy»

«They [the people who rent out a spare bedroom or two to travelers or even their homes] are supposed to be collecting the bed tax,» Ronk said.

If San Bernardino County were to come calling to collect a bed tax, Janet Dooley says she isn't sure it would be worth the hassle to continue renting out the spare bedroom.